For many of us, Skateboarding is a vehicle for cleansing the mind of all the bullshit in life. BRAINWASH is our attempt at capturing the unique in-the-zone headspace that downhill skateboarding provides. A huge thanks to Dustin Hampton for shredding so hard for our cameras. And thank you S1 Helmet Co. for allowing us to filter this particular vision through the visor …

ASPHALT BARRELS is our feature follow-run series showcasing a rotating cast of downhill skateboarders from across the entire world & getting “deeply shacked” on their most prized mountain roads. Please enjoy Josean Perez as he rips down some steep & frothing blacktop somewhere in the wilds of Puerto Rico that the locals call “Ciales“. Filmed by Matthew …

Camcorder Downhill Classics is our latest Wheelbase Magazine video series and features digital home-movies of downhill skateboard racing from the late 1990s and through the early 2000s. This was the heyday of downhill skateboard racing on prime time television—an era where Biker Sherlock and a cast of other downhill skaters helped put downhill skateboarding back …

Introducing our third ASPHALT BARRELS follow-run. This series featured downhill skaters from across the world getting way, way shacked on their most prized mountain roads. Please enjoy East Coast ripper Jacob Hales as he froths a deep & winding blacktop-tube somewhere in the state of North Carolina. Filmed by Matthew McKeon of Team Broke Off. __________________________ If you’d like to …

Camcorder Downhill Classics is a new Wheelbase Magazine video series featuring digital home-movies of downhill skateboard racing from the late 1990s and through the early 2000s. This was the heyday of downhill skateboard racing on prime time television—an era where Biker Sherlock and a cast of other downhill skaters who helped put downhill skateboarding back …

Here is numero dos of our new ASPHALT BARRELS follow-run series featuring downhill skaters from across the world getting way shacked down their most prized mountain roads. Please enjoy East Coast ripper Marshal Parrish as he surfs a deep & winding blacktop-tube somewhere in the state of Georgia. Marvin’s perhaps? Anywho, filmed by Matthew McKeon of Team Broke …

ASPHALT BARRELS is our new follow-run series featuring downhill skaters from across the world getting so pitted on their most prized mountain roads. Please enjoy Mason Chiaramonte as he surfs a deep & winding blacktop-tube somewhere in North Carolina. Filmed by Matthew McKeon of Team Broke off. __________________________ If you’d like to see your gnarly follow-run featured on our …

RANGER is a tribute to finding balance & exploring nature through the lens of downhill skateboarding. Set on a lesser known asphalt barrel in Southern California, RANGER takes you through a single day’s session—rolling its visual revolutions up and down and revolving temporally through graded rotations so as to reinvigorate and revitalize your sense of stoke. …

It’s a familiar sensation. A protracted return to the world around me, cradled by my hammock’s synthetic material. I gently swayed above the cracked white paint of the bleachers below. Pulling myself upright was enough to expose me to the morning sun. Its intensity rudely forced recognition of the previous nights descent into vice. …

Words & Photos: Jake Grove You know you’re in for a rad day of skating and shooting when you get a call from the Rad Train Conductor, Jimmy Riha… San Diego is home to countless all around amazing skate spots, and an abundance of steezy shredders to shralp them up! Living in the …

It is very easy to get caught up in today’s media driven age in which the sentiment of “if you didn’t get it on video, it didn’t happen” rings all to true. Nearly every single skate trip, whether it be a group of professionals or just the local skate crew getting down, is now almost …

WORDS & ART Jake Grove I’ve been working with Wheelbase for a little while now and I’m stoked to announce something new—my monthly column. I’ll be sharing my views on skateboarding as an outsider, insider, rightsider, wrongsider, backsider, frontsider, and a no-sider. If you don’t know me, I’m a skateboarder, a photographer, an aspiring artist, …

WORDS Malachi Greene For the last 6 years of my life I’ve been involved with downhill skateboarding. For as long as I can remember, I just wanted to be in the thick of it. Maybe one day be a brand manager or something? It has not been a smooth ride. I went from broke with …

Port City Daze is our latest video series and features our friends shredding in the Wheelbase hood. This ongoing series is focused on thrashing and slashing in Long Beach, San Pedro, and the surrounding Port of Los Angeles area. To kick off this new motion picture series we rang our Canadian bro/Bruce/yeah guy, Eric Jensen. He was down for …

“It was a magical time and magical place! Summer, 1978, and on the road to Cascade Springs, Utah—in the Timpanogas, close to Sundance Ski Resort and the Alpine Scenic Loop drive. My friend, Kenny George, and I discovered this when we were camping out in the Uinta Mountains above Park City, and found this 7 …

Young, yoked up, talented and oh-so-popular with the ladies, brasilero Jonas Richter is an up-and-coming force in the realm of downhill skateboarding. In between traveling to and from races all across the US, we got to spend some time with Jonas skating around the borough of Queens in New York City. Being unfamiliar with the …

Wheelbase Magazine is now rollin’ mad deep in NYC. We are officially all about the bagels, knishes, pastrami on rye and getting extremely lost exploring new neighborhoods via the subway. Bustin Skateboards team rider William Royce found himself in New York City during the finnicky-weather days of early spring, and we jumped at the opportunity …

Skateboarding in New York City is mind-blowing—what else to say? This wild city provides a vividly colorful and sensory-overloaded environment that is a perfect catalyst for the Act of Shred. The endless asphalt lines and the infinite combination of banked brick, sweeping cement, and curvaceous cobble make for a plankboarding paradise unmatched the world over. …

50°F, rain, and a stiff breeze—welcome to Hamburg! This most beautiful city of the world is said to be pretty moody—we have a lot of rain here (Fortunately still not as much as in England!). Our summers tend to be short and our winters are too long and too cold. All inhabitants who skateboard here …

New Mexico is at the south end of the Rocky Mountain range. Geologically, everything here was brought about by volcanic activity. (You can see something like 60 plus extinct volcanoes from the foothills of Albuquerque.) Due to the fact that everything is made from hard granite, nothing erodes—and this means steep, unbanked roads. We get …

Mark Short and I (Will Edgecombe) took a skate pilgrimage to Brazil in late 2011, and were hosted by Sergio Yuppie and his family. Over the course of 4 weeks, illuminated by the vivid Santa Catarina sunshine, I had the opportunity to document a bit of his skateboard building process.

The idea behind the Road Agents article is a simple one: It is designed to showcase thriving scenes & regions from across the globe—straight from the mouth and lenses of the actual riders themselves. This first installment hails from Texas, the words are from my main man Chubbs, and the images are from a talented …